2001 Ballon d'Or

Annual association football award event in France 2001 Ballon d'Or Michael Owen 072007 cropped.jpg 2001 Ballon d'Or winner, Michael Owen in 2007 18 December 2001 France Football ballondor.com Won by ENG Michael Owen (1st award) 2000 Ballon d'Or 2002 The 2001 Ballon d'Or (2001 Golden Ball), given to the best football player in Europe as judged by a panel of sports journalists from UEFA member countries, was awarded to Michael Owen on 18 December 2001. https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy01.html European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or") 2001 José Luis Pierrend RSSSF 26 March 2005 3 February 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20090216092548/http://rsssf.com/miscellaneous/europa-poy01.html 16 February 2009 live Owen was the fourth English national to win the award after Stanley Matthews (1956), Bobby Charlton (1966) and Kevin Keegan (1978, 1979). Rankings On 12 November 2001, the shortlist of 50 male players compiled by a group of experts from France Football was announced.2001-11-12 Slechts twee Nederlanders bij besten https://www.vi.nl/nieuws/slechts-twee-nederlanders-bij-besten 2025-12-19 vi.nl nl-NL RankFrance Football http://www.francefootball.fr/FF/ballon_or/bo_2001.html https://web.archive.org/web/20051127014339/http://www.francefootball.fr/FF/ballon_or/bo_2001.html 2005-11-27 2025-12-19 www.francefootball.frPlayerClub(s)NationalityPoints 1 Michael Owen ENG Liverpool England 176 2 Raúl ESP Real Madrid Spain 140 3 Oliver Kahn GER Bayern Munich Germany 114 4 David Beckham ENG Manchester United England 102 5 Francesco Totti ITA Roma Italy 57 6 Luís Figo ESP Real Madrid Portugal 56 7 Rivaldo ESP Barcelona Brazil 20 8 Andriy Shevchenko ITA Milan Ukraine 18 9 Thierry Henry ENG Arsenal France 14 Zinedine Zidane ESP Real Madrid France 14 11 Bixente Lizarazu GER Bayern Munich France 10 12 David Trezeguet ITA Juventus France 7 13 Stefan Effenberg GER Bayern Munich Germany 6 14 Henrik Larsson SCO Celtic Sweden 4 Alessandro Nesta ITA Lazio Italy 4 16 Juan Sebastián Verón ITA LazioENG Manchester United Argentina 3 Hernán Crespo ITA Lazio Argentina 3 18 Giovane Élber GER Bayern Munich Brazil 2 Gaizka Mendieta ESP ValenciaITA Lazio Spain 2 Roberto Carlos ESP Real Madrid Brazil 2 Damiano Tommasi ITA Roma Italy 2 Sami Hyypiä ENG Liverpool Finland 2 Emmanuel Olisadebe GRE Panathinaikos Poland 2 Ebbe Sand GER Schalke 04 Denmark 2 25 Roberto Baggio ITA Brescia Italy 1 Steven Gerrard ENG Liverpool England 1 Rui Costa ITA Milan Portugal 1 28 Sonny Anderson FRA Lyon Brazil 0 Fabien Barthez ENG Manchester United France 0 Gabriel Batistuta ITA Roma Argentina 0 Gianluigi Buffon ITA ParmaITA Juventus Italy 0 Cafu ITA Roma Brazil 0 Vincent Candela ITA Roma France 0 Alessandro Del Piero ITA Juventus Italy 0 Marcel Desailly ENG Chelsea France 0 Rio Ferdinand ENG Leeds United England 0 Ryan Giggs ENG Manchester United Wales 0 Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink ENG Chelsea Netherlands 0 Iván Helguera ESP Real Madrid Spain 0 Harry Kewell ENG Leeds United Australia 0 Patrick Kluivert ESP Barcelona Netherlands 0 Samuel Kuffour GER Bayern Munich Ghana 0 Hidetoshi Nakata ITA RomaITA Parma Japan 0 Pavel Nedvěd ITA LazioITA Juventus Czech Republic 0 Pauleta FRA Bordeaux Portugal 0 Robert Pires ENG Arsenal France 0 Paul Scholes ENG Manchester United England 0 Lilian Thuram ITA ParmaITA Juventus France 0 Patrick Vieira ENG Arsenal France 0 Eric Carrière FRA Nantes France 0 References External links France Football Official Ballon d'Or page 2001 Category:2001–02 in European football Category:2001 sports awards